Samba the capybara is alive and well – and still on the run – more than six months after escaping from a Hampshire zoo.
The runaway rodent and her sister Tango vanished from their enclosure at Marwell Zoo on March 17 while being moved to temporary accommodation.
Tango was found soon afterwards, but Samba remained on the loose.
Her great escape prompted a massive search operation and months later sightings have been few and far between.
But now the zoo has issued an update to say the mischievous fugitive has been spotted on newly-installed wildlife cameras on ‘private land’, with her keepers ‘focused on bringing
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